Tag: Hapa-Palooza

  • Mixed-race artists use hybrid experience as creative spring-board

  • Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager Schema Magazine 2015-09-17 Marissa Willcox Hapa-palooza is here! Celebrating what Vancouver does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word “hapa” (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect…

  • Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop with Sharon Chang Hapa-palooza Festival 2015 Heartwood Community Cafe 317 E. Broadway Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Saturday, 2015-09-19, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang, author, scholar, sociologist and activist Multiracial Asian Families How do we have transformative race conversations with multi-racial children when most grownups aren’t even able to…

  • Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-09-06 Jordan Yerman Mixed-race, outsider, or ‘half-breed’: you’re not alone at Hapa-palooza. Get in on Canada’s largest celebration of mixed heritage. Tôi là người lai mỹ means “I’m an American half-breed”. Author and publisher Brandy Liên Worrall wrote it in…

  • Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-09-13 Jordan Yerman Celebrate the whole you with literature, film, art, and dance. This is Hapa-Palooza. The third annual Hapa-Palooza Festival kicks off on September 18, once again bringing three days of art and culture to Vancouver. Focusing…

  • Hapa-Palooza challenges mixed-race stereotypes The Vancouver Sun 2011-09-07 Vivian Luk, Special To The Sun ‘We’re 100-per-cent whole, we’re Canadian,’ says filmmaker who faced identity struggles and discrimination while growing up The nickname Super Nip – partly derived from a Second World War term to describe Japanese people – and racial jokes followed Jeff Chiba Stearns…